by Kate Elliott
A really wonderful first YA novel from a writer used to targetting an older audience. The transition from adult to YA may not have been entirely free from bumps for some, but it was everything I enjoy about Kate Elliott's work as well as YA. To me, the characters were more three-dimensional than I s...
I really liked a lot of things about this one, from the setting to the complexities of the family and politics. There are a few Little Women echoes, but they’re mostly at the beginning and I personally didn’t find the comparison hugely helpful. At any rate, Elliott does a nice job of writing a chara...
Unfortunately, this book was just not for me. Besides the fact that this book had nothing I wanted in a book, this book also added a few more pet peeves of mine and combined it into a whole mess that I could not understand. I loved the premise of this. But, as soon as I read the first five chapte...
4 - 4.5 starsThe world building was occasionally confusing, but I enjoyed this slick, fast-paced fantasy. Lots of action, a little romance, and a bold heroine who takes charge and doesn't wait to be rescued. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series
Let me say right off the bat that I liked the book. I started in as skeptical, because the summary for the book is not the best written, nor does it really represent the book as a whole. The summary gives off the impression that the "Commoners" are noble and free and whatnot (with all the noble sava...
***This review has also been posted on The Social PotatoCourt of Fives was kind of disappointing. The blurb had me excited but the book itself wasn’t nearly as exciting as I had thought it would be.I imagined that this would be a politically tense book and there would be high stakes but I never felt...
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